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LowCarber.org!

Active Low-Carber Forums is a support community
advocating a healthy low-carb lifestyle and sharing support with other active
low-carb members. We hope you enjoy our support community and that you decide to
join us, but please make sure you read the following carefully, as it is not the
usual bla bla bla: Active Low-Carber Forums is a moderated site. Moderators
may delete and edit posts in an effort to keep the site free of flame wars,
insults, crude language, advertising and off-topic replies. Please be polite
and helpful with your replies. Feel free to seek support without fear of undue
criticism. By choosing to join, you declare
to have read and have agreed to abide by these rules.

Who Is Welcome Here?

Anyone interested in low-carb issues. Feel free to ask any questions and be polite in your answers. If you have a lot of weight to lose, very little weight to lose, or just want to follow low-carbing for good health, you are welcome
here.

If you do not believe in low-carbing and have strong arguments against it, you
are welcome as well, but please restrict your posts to the "War Zone". If you have
scientific or medical references you wish to share with us, please post the
material in the "Low-Carb Studies" section of our forums.

Please consult your doctor and read a
book!

Our support forum is for persons who want to help themselves; and to share
ideas with low-carbers from around the web. Many excellent low carbohydrate
plans exist, all are welcome. It is beyond the scope of our support community
to prescribe a diet plan for you, so we encourage you to consult your doctor
and read one or more of the published program books. Once you've decided which plan is right for you,
we are here to help you along the way. Please note, we only discuss published
plans, not proprietary, clinic-only type of plans as these require personal
and/or professional
supervision, and we cannot give medical
advice or service.

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Do NOT fight with the staff

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live with it as we do not have time to send you a detailed explanation. Re-read
the rules to refresh your memory as to why it happened. Once again, there will
be no discussion on these matters. If you
become a nuisance, you will lose your posting privileges.
We welcome debate regarding low-carb issues, but these forum rules are not open for discussion, argument or debate.

Do not complain about the rules.

If you object to these rules being applied in a certain case, please report
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of rubbish. We who volunteer to pick up the rubbish get to decide what is
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rubbish, it's gone. Please don't argue and please don't keep posting along the
same line otherwise you're gone too.

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